Cover Your PS Vita in Persona 4 Golden (But Only If You Pre-Order)

Look, I’ll concede that the title of this post is open for misinterpretation. What YOU do with your PS Vita in the comfort of your own home is obviously none of our business.

The kind of loving Persona 4 Golden can offer your PS Vita, however—apart from it being one of the best RPGs ever made, delivering 100+ hours of addictive goodness, et cetera—might be something you’ll want to share with the world…

“The skin adorns your Vita with the stylish, vibrant aesthetics of Persona 4 while protecting it from small scratches and dust. It is easy to apply and won’t leave any residue when removed. Also included are 8 exclusive matching wallpapers, each featuring a main character from P4G and all designed to perfectly coordinate with the protective skin. Manufactured in Japan by Dezaegg, this Vita skin is the same one made available to Japanese fans, down to the use of the original title for the game, Persona 4: The Golden. The P4G Vita Skin will not be made available for individual sale in North America.”

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That’s right, friends in the PlayStation Nation: ATLUS is going to make your PS Vita sexy and we’re going to do it at no added cost, provided you do what pretty much everyone else is doing—certainly all the cool kids—and reserve your copy of P4G today. (We stress the today due to the limited quantity.) What’s that, people who live on the same street/floor as whoever is reading this sentence? YOU’RE PRE-ORDERING, TOO? Your currently-reading-this friend/acquaintance is going to be sooooo jelly come the holidays.

Oh, and in case you were wondering just how improved Persona 4 Golden’s visuals are (the game is bigger and better in every other way as well, mind you), we have a couple comparison screens we’re showing here on the blog for the first time!

Persona 4 Golden releases this holiday season, exclusively for PS Vita. Which is, without coincidence, also when your PS Vitas become (even more) the envy of everyone you know (provided you pre-order soon). For more info about P4G, visit www.atlus.com/p4g.

I REALLY hope Best Buy Canada joins in with this! I would LOVE that skin! Especially hoping that if they do it’s not an ‘in store only’ thing and they would also get shipped out with online preorders. I pre-ordered this back during E3 when Best Buy had their $10 off games shown at E3 thing so $29.99 is a sweet price :D but GRRR I WANT THAT SEXY SKIN!

I have never tried a Persona game. But the positive review scores & the huge Persona fan base is tough to ignore. And Atlus is one heck of a “gamers” developer… I’ll end up buying the digital version though.

Any chance we will get a free CD or digital release of the soundtrack with Persons 4 Golden like you did with the original Persona 4? Wasn’t able to grab a copy of it back when the original Persona 4 was released.

I’ve never played a game in this series before, but I’m intrigued. I’m finally getting a Vita sometime in the near future, I’m debating if I can wait for my birthday to get it (2 and a half months… seems too far away), but either way I’ll probably wait until that LBP bundle I heard about is released. My question is, if I haven’t gotten into this series yet, what game should I start with? Should I just get Persona 3 Portable for Vita?

It sounds like you want to dive in BEFORE P4G’s release? If you have a PS3, you could consider the PSN version of Persona 3 FES. If you only have a PSP/PS Vita or are determined to play on-the-go, I would recommend Persona 3 Portable. PS.Blog’s own Jeff Rubenstein was much like you, completely uninitiated, but P3P seems to have clicked with him in a major way (you can find a recent preview of P4G here on the PS.Blog in which he talks about how much he’s been enjoying P3P).

The older games in the franchise are less forgiving and more traditional in their game design. It’ll be harder to work backwards if you start with 3 or 4, but based on what I’ve read on forums, most folks who haven’t played a ton of hardcore JRPGs and who don’t have the aid of nostalgia seem to not stick with the series when they start with Persona or P2:IS, hence my suggestion of starting with P3 or waiting for P4G.

Of course, you’d add a “Shin Megami Tensei” on the cover itself, right… Right? Anyways, off topic here, I’m just hoping for an Eternal Punishment PSP release. Still have the original PS2 game…definitely recommended for those never tried a SMT game.

Tempted, but I tend to have this policy of black-bordered handheld game system screens. One of the reasons I was ecstatic about the Ghost of Sparta bundle PSP (black faceplate, red body), and why the Ass Creed Tri Liberation bundle doesn’t appeal to me. Thus, while this is hella stylish, I think I’ll hold off, especially since I can’t utilize it for the forseeable future.

But, as a sleeze, I must ask: Will it be separate from the game case’s shrinkwrap? If so, I could order it, return just the game, and hold out for a digital release once I actually have a Vita.

@TJF588: Why would you even ask that? If you are going to do something so sleazy and admit that it is, then keep it to yourself. I would advise against it, but if you are set in you scummy ways then just don’t go announcing it.

Man this looks really awesome, I just finished P3 FES on PSN and am hyped as hell. Was curious if the story will be up to par though :/ Pre ordered a Assassin’s Creed liberation bundle this morning for this game :D

Hehe! I’ve been wanting to play this for a while. Missed my chance when it came out for the ps2. Just need a Vita, but definitely picking this up regardless. I loved Person 3 (still have to finish FES >.<) and I really got interested 4. can't wait.

@KainDrake: Pretty much every Persona game is it’s own contained story. Their are some very loose ties to each game, but overall you can pretty much pick up and start at any game in the series. Most people find the most accessible pick-up point is Persona 3 and it seems you’ve already got started on that. I’d still recommend Persona 2 since it’s a great game, but it is a much much different game than 3 and 4. Persona 1 has aged horribly though.

I am compelled to make my first post ever because this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone else bring up this issue. Every single wallpaper that I’ve loaded onto the Vita (Custom made and re-sized to native in Photohop) experiences these pixelation errors. It basically looks like heavy JPEG compression, and is very noticeable when flipping between the photo viewer and the home menu. Get an image with fine lines, red and black boundaries, and a lot of non-orthographic patterns, and you’ll see what we mean. If this was fixed, I’d go crazy making wallpapers like I did for my PSP, but as it stands it just doesn’t look good enough to be worth the effort.